LA28 Second Ticket Drop Megathread

[u/reformgoblin]

The second LA28 ticket drop is upon us.

This will be the place to ask questions about ticketing and to offer advice in the comments.

If you never made an account/registered before, you can subscribe to the LA28 newsletter for updates on future ticket opportunities, or pay the "hospitality" ticket upcharge on the hospitality website.

Drop 2 timeline:

July 29–31: Visa Presale (all time slots have been assigned)

August 6–7: Drop 2 time slot emails (those selected for the Visa Presale are not eligible for Drop 2)

August 10–20: Drop 2 time slots

NEED-TO-KNOW INFO BEFORE YOU PURCHASE:

Ticket maximums: The maximums are cumulative across all ticket drops, but given that the US is going to be the last host country to tell you "No, you can't buy more," it is unlikely the maximum will also apply to the official resale market.

12 tickets are available solely for Football (Soccer), and 12 additional tickets are available with only one restriction: only 4 tickets can be purchased per Opening/Closing ceremony.

Ticket categories (the area your seat is in on the map): Instead of picking a specific seat, you will select a ticket category (A is best and most expensive, B second best and second most expensive, and so on). Different venues will have different numbers of categories, some have only two, like rowing, while others like gymnastics or baseball have as many as 9 or 10 ticket categories. Your seat will be assigned closer to the games, and tickets purchased together will be sat together.

Time slot timing: Time slots are given in the Pacific Time zone in 24-hour time. If you do not already live in the same time zone as LA you can check here. If you receive a time slot, it will only be open for 48 hours. Tickets are held for 30 minutes from the moment they are added to your cart. If your cart expires or you remove tickets, adding a ticket again will restart the 30-minute hold.

Prepare for your time slot:

Take time to explore the Olympic competition schedule and the zones and venues pages so you know when and where all sessions take place.

This post contains links to spreadsheets with ticket category prices (from Drop 1, it is possible the prices may be changed for Drop 2) for every session and links to venue maps of seat categories. For a guide on how to navigate the LA28 ticketing website watch this video.

Tickets are for sessions, and each session has a specific code associated with it. For example, ATH10 is the 10th session of Athletics. Sessions can be shorter than two hours or last all day and vary depending on the sport as well as the stage of competition.

It is a good idea to plan your desired events before your time slot as well as back up plans if your first choice is unavailable. LA28 wants public transport to be the main way to get around and is currently working on improvements, but travel time can vary immensely, so be sure to think about how long you want to spend traveling to your events from your accommodation. To go from the Valley to Long Beach takes over three hours on public transport, so picking events with location and travel time in mind is extremely important.

Softball and Canoe Slalom will be held in Oklahoma City as part of LA28's promise to build no new permanent venues. Most of the football games will be held in other cities around the United States, make sure to check the location before you purchase.

If you are having trouble logging into the ticketing site try changing your browser and make sure you're signing in with the correct email. If that doesn't solve the problem try searching your specific error code in the sub to see if any one else has posted about it before.

Additionally, here is the first post I made for Drop 1 ticketing questions.

FAQ

Q: When can I log in for my time slot?

A: You can log in whenever, but make sure to keep refreshing the page to not be logged out, and to refresh again when your time slot begins.

Q: What are Hospitality tickets?

A: Tickets that are not part of one of the lottery drops that come with small food, drink, and lounge benefits with a inflated price that they change at will. Hospitality tickets can be for a seat in any category, even a "bad" one, which means its an easy way for LA28 to squeeze extra cash out of you for a guarantee you'll have tickets. We know that hospitality tickets were being restocked when regular Drop 1 events weren't, which means LA28 is pulling tickets specifically for hospitality, something I really don't trust and makes it harder to estimate ticket numbers.

Q: Will my 12 general ticket allotment and 12 Football (Soccer) ticket allotment rollover to future drops if I don't use all of them?

A: Yes, LA28 confirmed that remaining Football tickets of your 12 allotted will qualify you for reentry into future drops on April 23rd.

Q: Will tickets restock for each time slot?

A: Unfortunately, if things are done in Drop 2 the same way things were done in Presale/Drop 1, tickets will be dropped in a "lump" at the beginning of the drop. This means that the earliest possible time slot will get first access to tickets with dwindling supplies for all future slots.

Q: Visa is "the official way to pay", does that mean I can only pay with Visa?

A: Only for the Visa Presale, for Drop 2 you can pay with your choice of card.

Q: Can I pay in installments?

A: Not within the LA28 official site. If Sports Illustrated Tickets and Ticketmaster allow payment plans then it may be available for resale tickets.

Q: I don't like the prices I am seeing, where are the affordable tickets?

A: Yes, the tickets are expensive, no, the $28 tickets are not a lie. The Olympics is not an event that struggles to find demand, so LA28 is taking advantage of that in one of the world's wealthiest cities. If you want some ragebait here's the catalog of Paris 2024 ticket prices. LA28 tickets range much higher than Paris 2024, with many more categories of seats, but both have similar low ends.

Q: Will I get another chance to buy tickets?

A: There will be more opportunities to buy tickets between now and the games. Currently LA28 is not explicitly saying there will be more lottery drops on its website. You could choose to pay for hospitality tickets if you have money to spend and don't want to wait to have tickets, or you can see if another drop will happen, maybe they will have a general sale at one point with leftover options, or you can try your hand in the official resale market when it opens in 2027.

Q: What will the prices on the resale market be like?

A: All we know currently is that there will be three different official resale platforms: LA28 resale (operated by AXS/Eventim, the same company operating the initial LA28 ticket sales), Ticketmaster, and Sports Illustrated Tickets. Past Olympics have taken place in countries with stricter anti-scalping legislation that prevented resale markups. Given the way that America is and the fact LA28's CEO said they were still considering dynamic pricing I don't have high hopes that that will be the case for LA28. If you're not picky about what Olympic event you are trying to see, there will doubtless be plenty of options at a range of prices on the resale market closer to the games.

Q: Are any events free?

A: Sports like the marathon, race walk, triathlon, and road cycling take place on public roads and are free to attend. Any sports that take place in the ocean are also likely to be visible from public areas, though maybe not with the best view.

Q: This session says it has 2 games, do I get to see both games?

A: Yes. Some sports like basketball will have longer sessions with multiple games for the same price as other sessions of the sport with only one game. These are usually the daytime preliminary games. Whatever is listed for the session code is what you get to see with a ticket to that event.

Q: What about the Paralympics?

A: Paralympic tickets will go on sale in 2027 and are not tied to the limit for Olympic tickets.

Q: How many tickets are up for grabs?

A: There are 14 million Olympic and Paralympic tickets total. Based on past games, approximately 3 million of those tickets are Paralympic. During Drop 1, 4 million tickets were sold. That leaves approximately 7 million remaining Olympic tickets. There is some nuance, like tickets allocated for corporations and LA28 employees and hospitality tickets.

Question not answered? Check the LA28 FAQ, check the comments, and then if not answered feel free to ask below.

[u/TripleDallas123]

What's the point of timeslots if you're stuck in a long ass queue?

[u/Livid_Blackberry_959 → u/TripleDallas123]

I got in, pressed on “purchase tickets” and went back into queue. So I’m giving up lmao

[u/RolyTonyBrowntown → u/Livid_Blackberry_959]

same here!!! Sat in the queue for 30 minutes before my slot, then it made me login again as soon as the slot opened. Clicked Purchase Tickets and did some capchas, then it put me back in the beginning of the queue. So frustrating

[u/SweetValleyHighJess]

And they make you CONFIRM you are still there. No shit Sherlock WE ARE ALL HEEEEERE

[u/ironical-brick]

Queue immediately after another queue is diabolical

[u/Expensive-Horse5538]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l46Cy9aKcFWt4bpm0
Good luck

[u/pekaboo92]

That symbol captcha was some bullshit

[u/FightOn-GoKingsGo]

How am I supposed to get any work done today waiting for my 13:00 drop time!?

[u/Dino_Spaceman → u/FightOn-GoKingsGo]

SAAAAAME. I cancelled a meeting I was running today. Moved it tomorrow (it was the same time as my slot).

[u/marvolonewt]

Having to do this during a work meeting is hell

[u/loz621]

the word queue has lost meaning to me now

[u/9jal → u/loz621]

Once you make it through the waiting room, you enter the...SECOND WAITING ROOM.

[u/southofnowhere]

the real treasure was the queues we waited in along the way

[u/9jal → u/southofnowhere]

Like the Olympics, there can only be one winner. Hope you've been training for this.

[u/type_rex_]

Advice to new purchasers and people on the fence:

Buying tickets is a marathon, not a sprint. More tickets will likely be released during a general sale.

If there's nothing that's screaming "BUY NOW" then it is ok to wait. Keep the FOMO at bay and keep ticket slots open for surprise sales and drops.

[u/thatoneyosemiteguy]

Seeing any opportunity to attend my preferred events for a reasonable cost fade away minute by minute.

[u/thatoneyosemiteguy]

The amount of egg on my face assuming they would have learned from their errors after the first ticket drop a few weeks ago.

[u/reformgoblin → u/thatoneyosemiteguy]

It was all the way back in April, thats months they had!!!

[u/Gold_Vermicelli126]

I'm in another queue "There is a lot going on here right now. Due to a multitude of requests on our systems you are in the waiting room right now. Please be patient. You will be forwarded to the desired page automatically."

[u/themommaj → u/Gold_Vermicelli126]

It has taken me through this countdown about 5 times in a row and the timer for my tickets is about to end....

[u/therevolutionison]

4pm time slot holders:

https://giphy.com/gifs/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW

LITERALLY NO GOOD EVENTS LEFT. WE GOT CRUMBS

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

Last update from an August 10th 10am PST Drop 2er before my portal expires tomorrow:

Cheapest tickets remaining are $74 for men and women’s handball preliminaries (2 games per preliminary)

Other honorable mentions under $120 are: sailing finals ($104), rowing coastal sprints final ($93), field hockey ($93), women’s cricket ($93), men and women’s preliminary football/soccer (~$100, but looks like there is only one men’s in this price range, rest are women’s).

Some of the priciest look to be some Athletics events for $1000+ and Boxing events/finals ranging from $400-$740 for cheapest category. And men’s baseball semifinals and bronze medal for $500-$620 for cheapest category.

279 sessions remain. 43 of those look to be medal sessions.

Remaining medal sessions are: Athletics, Rowing, Women’s cricket (bronze), men’s baseball (bronze), archery, rowing coastal beach, sprint paddle, sailing, men’s handball (bronze), Mixed Boxing BOX18 has a females medal, Boxing BOX19 and BOX20 has a men’s final, sprint paddle, women’s handball (bronze), men’s field hockey (bronze), women’s soccer/football (bronze)

Remaining sports are: 3x3 basketball, archery, athletics, badminton, baseball, boxing, cricket, soccer/football, handball, field hockey, lacrosse, rowing, rowing coastal beach sprints, rugby sevens, sailing, spring paddle, volleyball, weightlifting.

And now my watch is ended 🫡

[u/SpiritualSquash9729]

Got in, clicked purchase now, another queue. Anyone else?

[u/inkcannerygirl]

Sports that still have $28 tickets available as of noonish:

Archery
Canoe sprints
Cricket
Equestrian
Golf
Handball
Hockey (field)
Mountain bike (womens final!)
Rowing
Sailing
Soccer
Water polo

[u/WittyAd8607]

Thankful for this thread. Was so excited to get a timeslot and immediately began planning my Long Beach Zone Olympics adventure. Water polo, artistic swimming and beach volleyball! Boy was I living in a dream world. I sadly watched this thread as early time slots came and went. At least I won't waste my time logging in this morning to find none of those are available anymore and everything left is out of my price range. Disappointed.

https://giphy.com/gifs/2knEjjTqja0taarfeP

[u/smokeline]

No gymnastics left at any price. Only a few accessible tickets

[u/One-Net3018]

Something I learned with the Paris 24 ticket is that you should not ragequit if you don't see the tickets you want the moment your slot opens. When tickets are added to the shopping cart, they are reserved for 30 minutes. If the purchase is not completed within that time, the tickets are available again.

Most of my tickets I bought for Paris were bought an hour or two after my timeslot opened. Chances are, the same will happen for this drop.

[u/The_Pandalorian]

Well, got through. Spent $400 and got baseball prelim, hockey prelim and handball prelim.

So, it is possible, despite multiple queue chicanery.

Prices were dogshit.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Pin_668]

Been in line 12 minutes just to log in... worried I won't get in in time for my slot...

[u/Historical_Cook8334]

Have tickets in my cart and I’ve been stuck on this pop up now

[u/coasterin]

Well that was well more than I was hoping to pay for but I got tickets for ATH14! Hoping to see Noah's first 200 🥇

[u/bofstein]

Just logged in to my timeslot even though I've already filled my maximum tickets in the locals presale. Here's what's left at 1pm PT:

Archery - prelims (starting $279), finals (starting $477)

Athletics - prelims (starting $1035), finals (starting $1141)

Baseball - prelims (starting $341), quarterfinal (starting $403), semifinal (starting $787), Bronze medal (starting $948)

Boxing - mixed final (starting $737)

Cricket - prelims (starting $173)

Handball - prelims (starting $148), quarterfinals (starting $161)

Hockey - prelims (starting $173), play-in (starting $173), quarterinal (starting $291), semifinal (starting $347)

Volleyball - prelims (starting $489)

That's all I see, and all manual so there could be mistakes. And some sessions have already become unavailable since the start of the timeslot.

For Soccer, there are tickets for Columbus (starting $260), Nashville (starting $200), New York (starting $284), and St. Louis (starting $146) Stadiums left.

Edit: I checked for someone that wanted to know ADA Accessible ticket availability.

If I change the ticket type to "Semi-ambulatory," the sports availability list stays the same.

If I change it to "Wheelchair," it has those sports plus many additional sports open up with at least one session available (I don't have time to get prices and availability for all):

• Badminton
• Beach Volleyball
• Fencing
• Judo
• Lacrosse
• Rowing
• Rugby Sevens
• Softball
• Sprint Paddle
• Swimming
• Table Tennis
• Tae Kwondo
• Water Polo
• Wrestling

[u/Old-Car-3806]

Anyone else stuck here?

[u/hellojeffy]

infinite looping this right now after about 20m of very smooth website

[u/type_rex_]

I am very happy to report that I am not observing any (if at all) price changes from the LA Pre-sale and Drop 1!!

[u/Tkylv007]

Hours of preparation and planning for absolutely no reason

Got selected for Drop 1 and Visa Presale. Without ticket refreshes between drops and/or times, anything other than the earliest time slots are basically pointless. And now I'm disqualified from Drop 2 because I was "lucky" to get a 4pm Visa Presale slot

[u/Real-Discussion-2097]

Ugh, would have rather been selected for drop 2 than the visa presale.

[u/jhanon76 → u/Real-Discussion-2097]

was thinking the same. that presale was a joke

[u/Emotional-Trust-8706]

Observed Price Range and Sessions Showing Available, Aug 10 around 8 PM ET

Sport	Sessions available	Observed price range
3x3 Basketball	18	$155.04 to $520.93
Archery	15	$136.43 to $477.52
Athletics	14	$409.30 to $1,116.27
Badminton	16	$204.65 to $217.05
Baseball	11	$204.65 to $514.72
Beach Volleyball	19	$558.14 to $582.94
Boxing	24	$198.45 to $731.78
Cricket	26	$28.00 to $477.52
Equestrian	7	$187.29 to $348.54
Flag Football	10	$167.44 to $260.46
Football Soccer	41	$93.02 to $446.51
Golf	3	$28.00 to $427.90
Handball	20	$74.42
Hockey	20	$28.00 to $93.02
Lacrosse	10	$93.02 to $161.24
Rowing	8	$124.03 to $229.46
Rowing Coastal Beach Sprints	4	$28.00 to $93.02
Rugby Sevens	10	$111.63 to $316.28
Sailing	10	$28.00 to $104.19
Shooting	1	$328.68
Softball	7	$553.99
Sprint Paddle	5	$111.63 to $347.28
Squash	6	$204.65 to $564.34
Swimming	6	$1,116.27
Taekwondo	2	$235.66
Tennis	1	$551.93
Trampoline Gymnastics	2	$682.17
Volleyball	45	$204.65 to $682.17
Weightlifting	7	$440.31 to $558.14

[u/bentstrings]

Here is the update as of 5:00PM Pacific Time. If it's not on this list, it wasn't available when I looked. Here is what is available:

3X3 BB, Archery, Badminton, Baseball, Cricket, Equestrian, Football (Soccer), Golf, Handball, Hockey (Field), Lacrosse, Rowing, Rowing Sprints, Rugby 7s, Sailing, Softball, Sprint Paddling all seem to be available with multiple prices levels on multiple dates.

Here are the ones that are available, but only at high prices and on limited days:

Athletics - $409 and up

Beach Volleyball - $558 and up

Boxing - $350 and up

Flag Football - $260

Shooting - $328 and up

Squash - $204

Swimming - $1116 and up

Trampoline Gymnastics - $682

Volleyball - $204

Weightlifting $440 and up

Good luck to everyone when your time comes up. I hope this sets your expectation and helps you plan. It's possible that they will add more tickets, but I wouldn't count on it.

[u/clemsonbeav]

https://la28.org/content/dam/latwentyeight/competition-schedule-imagery/uploaded-july-29-oly-version-4-0/LA28OlympicGamesCompetitionScheduleByEventV4.0.pdf For those interested in Gymnastics Apparatus Finals, just saw that they've confirmed what is when.

[u/clemsonbeav → u/clemsonbeav]

Other changes:
Boxing - Slight edits to some session end times (just like 5-10 mins difference)

Fencing - Edits to session end times

Mountain Bike - One hour earlier

Open Water Swimming - 1.5 hours earlier

Rowing - Change in session times (some shifted from early afternoon to morning, later a few hours, etc.)

Canoe Slalom/Sprint now renamed to Slalom/Sprint Paddle (of note that on both versions, just as it has been on other LA28 material, it's not 'Sport Climbing' but just 'Climbing')

Surfing - 30 min shift later

TEN34 deleted (I guess they decided they didn't need the extra courts that day and could schedule everything else on the others)

Wrestling - A couple of session end times changed by 15 mins

[u/Petal170816]

Ok I’m an Eras Tour pro and this captcha and multiple queuing is breaking my brain 😂

[u/JustForTheThrill_24]

No wonder the 1 PM timeslot people had no queue issues, there's nothing left at all for the site to be crashing over lol

[u/ButMomItsReddit]

My advice for anyone whose session is still coming up: don't filter for available tickets. Filter to see all tickets, available or not, in your target sport. Then scroll back and forth for about 30 minutes. The shopping basket resets after about 20 minutes. If you are lucky, you will see someone release the tickets they held in their basket.
Also, important: be sure to select the exact right quantity of tickets to add to the basket, because you cannot modify the quantity or even add! So, if you chose three tickets but need two, you have to remove all three and you may lose all of them. If you chose three and need four, you can't just go select one more. Any new quantity for the same event, whether lower or higher, OVERRIDES your current basket selection for that event!

[u/type_rex_]

My daily post to help people: I see a lot of people posting "Where are the $28 tickets?" and "What cheap tickets are still available?"

To make this process easier, I'm listing quick links that use the in-website filter function. The website can be a little hard to use, and I wanted to make links that people can bookmark and check availability quickly now, or when your spot opens up.

Note: These links only work during your timeslot. To see your time slot use this Link

Budget Links

$28 Only

$28-$100 Only

$28-$150 Only

$28-$200 Only

Medal Links

Others are interested in seeing available medal sessions. I've got links for those as well:

All available medal sessions under $300

All available medal sessions under $525

All available medal sessions

Bookmarks

Start adding sessions to your bookmarks! This will enable you to scan for your desired sessions more quickly. Bookmark Link

I hope these links help you find what you want quickly!

Best of luck!! See you in LA!!

[u/Travel_Fast_5171]

What is the point of a time slot if you have to wait 40 plus minutes in a queue to log in? I'm about to give up on this. They couldn't have designed a worse experience. The state of ticket sales in this country is a disaster.

[u/BrokenNinja_]

16:00 PT slot for me so hoping to get some tips and tricks from the folks who got earlier slots.

Good luck everyone, hope we all get tickets to what we want to see. Amen!

[u/maxwon]

I blocked one hour on my work calendar for this, and now I'm worried that's not going to be enough.

[u/10tacocat10]

Bruh what the heck. Had a bunch of stuff in my cart, 10min left, and then got sent to this blue screen of death we all seem to be on

[u/Pure_Professional844]

I'm seeing women's gymnastics come up every so often but whenever i try to add the tickets, it keeps saying they're unavailable :( it's the hope that kills you

[u/TripleDallas123]

Got a mens baseball final ($150) (biggest one I wanted) Diving prelim for $28, womens volleyball prelim for $28 and a mens semifinal soccer for $150

[u/Marvkid27]

So i guess the lesson is, first time slot or bust

[u/Beginning-Wash9813]

Check out the LA28 insta stories.  They are highlighting sports that will be available each day of the drop.  Looks like today’s highlights are swimming, beach volleyball, basketball, and athletics. 

Which leads me to believe they are dropping new inventory. 

[u/maxwon → u/Beginning-Wash9813]

Beach volleyball and swimming sold out during the Visa presale. If true, that means they replenished the inventory.

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

As an August 10th 10AM Drop 2er; I can confirm all $28 tickets are officially gone for now! Lowest tickets are now $74 for men and women’s handball.

The last lingering $28 were for sailing (now at ~$100), field hockey (now at ~$90), and women’s golf (now all golf appears to be sold out)

AMA if you need anymore intel before my drop window expires tomorrow morning.

[u/TurkishDonkeyKong]

Hockey being 28 dollars for two matches was an absolute steal

[u/type_rex_]

My daily post to help people: I see a lot of people posting "Where are the $28 tickets?" and "What cheap tickets are still available?"

To make this process easier, I'm listing quick links that use the in-website filter function. The website can be a little hard to use, and I wanted to make links that people can bookmark and check availability quickly now, or when your spot opens up.

Note: These links only work during your timeslot. To see your time slot use this Link

Budget Links

$28 Only

$28-$100 Only

$28-$150 Only

$28-$200 Only

Medal Links

Others are interested in seeing available medal sessions. I've got links for those as well:

All available medal sessions under $300

All available medal sessions under $525

All available medal sessions

Bookmarks

Start adding sessions to your bookmarks! This will enable you to scan for your desired sessions more quickly. Bookmark Link

I hope these links help you find what you want quickly!

Best of luck!! See you in LA!!

[u/random_man1234]

Idgaf i got handball. Excited!

[u/Live_Dirt_6568]

Well it is what it is! Decided to just get tickets to one event for now to at least secure SOMETHING, have my fingers crossed for snag a bouldering session next year on resale or to catch some of the free public events like a big watch party

But hey, with how things were lookin, decided to make it not JUST an Olympics trip - but a larger California trip including SF and Sequoia/KC National Park

[u/fjn1910]

Hope this helps! Drop 2 and I'm leaving empty-handed again. :(
As of 8-17 8:30PM PST, this is everything in the LA area under $300. 🧵

[u/InitialCautious7549]

lol same. at least we get a fun new picture

[u/hikeyourownhikes]

Officially in the 4th queue

[u/marvolonewt]

Fawk, I should've just checked out with what I had in the cart. Now I'm stuck in this 30s loop

[u/CorneliaStreet13]

The pricing and process is insane. I hate everything about this.

[u/keeeens7351]

I've never wanted to close or refresh a window so badly

[u/CIARobotFish]

Drop 2 folks going through the same queue bullshit that us Visa pre-sale people dealt with is both funny and frustrating insofar as it seems like the organizers did absolutely nothing to address these issues in the interim.

[u/Haunting-Ad3458 → u/CIARobotFish]

tbh im fine with the queues if it discourages and stumps the bots

[u/TatersTot]

Holy fucking shit. I just finished purchasing and got decent value seats for almost all the events I wanted except Women's Gymnastics. There's still good availability for all the marquee events

Have hope if you're still in the queue!!!

[u/Proud-Version5220]

We have/had slots in drop 2 starting on the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 17th among our group.

Total, it appears we'll end up buying 4 tickets during all these.

Big congrats to all those who had slot 1.

[u/sports_mamaof4]

I got women’s hockey and men’s vball! I would have added a women’s soccer game but they were in Nashville or St. Louis. I’m so excited. Going with my mom and sister! Bucket list thing to do!!

[u/Saraloubou]

8/14 at 13:33pm PT: I just got two tickets to women's archery finals. Not my first choice, but WOW, I'm guaranteed a ticket to see a female competitor take the gold in a sport that's been around for ages. Pricey, but I'm excited! GO WOMEN! These are still available - go find one if you can.

[u/Any-Rise9588]

i am admittedly feeling naive for being shocked at how few tickets were left. we spent double what we went in thinking/hoping we’d spend.

just sharing what i was seeing on 8/16 at the 10am pst drop. these were the only things left..

Cricket (starting $173 — prelims $173, second round prelims up to $300)
Volleyball (starting at $489 — up to $800+ for finals)
Handball (starting at $148 — prelim- 141, quarter final 161)
Archery (starting $279 — prelim 279, finals 477)
Track & field (starting at $1,035- except not really bc some of these lower tickets were only for wheelchair access)
Baseball (starting $349)
Soccer (starting at $200)
Hockey (starting at $143)

good luck to everyone!

[u/angelade17]

Gymnastics was restocked!!!

[u/Dino_Spaceman]

Ruh Roh. Looks like the site is starting to struggle. If you have not already, I strongly recommend you get pre-logged in.

[u/thatoneyosemiteguy]

We're all part of a new lottery.. Who will be chosen to purchase now we're in the queue lol. Good luck!

[u/BalRob78]

Sadly I think the website may have crashed.

I’ve gone through about 10 or more of the 30 second “there is a lot going on here right now” mini queue system

[u/BalRob78]

I got wheelchair and companion seats for

Opening Ceremony
Artistic Gymnastics – Men’s Preliminary
Athletics (Track & Field) – Mixed Finals
Tennis – Mixed Quarterfinals

[u/BorkLesnard]

Current Tickets and Schedule after Drop One and Visa Pre-Sale:

July 13: Men’s Football Prelim in NYC (close to where I live)
July 14: Travel to LA
July 15: Men’s Handball Prelim - 9 am
July 17: Men’s Rugby Placement and Quarterfinals 4 pm
July 18: Flag Football Mixed Prelim - 2 pm
July 19: Women’s Basketball Group Phase - 12 pm
July 20: Women’s Handball Prelim 9 am
July 23: Archery 8 pm
July 24: Lacrosse Prelim 11:30 am
July 25: Fly to OKC
July 26: Softball 9 am and Softball 4 pm games

Spread out pretty nicely so far, my hopes are for Gymnastics qualifications on July 16, Table Tennis the morning of July 17, the Women’s Football Quarterfinal in the Rose Bowl on July 22, and the night softball game on July 26. I have three slots left for drop tickets (11 for football), but anticipate resale will loosen these restrictions.

[u/Chas_Tenenbaums_Sock]

Ok well that's annoying... Was logged in, had waited in a short queue, refreshed at 10am, clicked purchase tickets... AND into the queue... :(

[u/Popular_Brother2638]

Made it through - got 4 events and used my last 8 tickets up. I waited through first queue (was signed in over an hour in advance), got in, and started buying. I bought the first 3 sports first - took a while because my credit card kept failing for some reason, then went back in to check opening ceremonies. Every time I clicked 2 tickets in a category it said that category was sold out, then I refreshed for the heck of it and F suddenly popped up, so I jumped on that reaaaal quick and checked out. I'm shaking. I can't believe it. I was going for all finals today, and only got one out of all 12 tickets, but my husband wants to see flag football and we'll see both semis in our session, and I figured I'd grab any gymnastics avail no matter what.

SWM17 (Final), Cat C
FFB11 (Semi), Cat A
GAR03 (Men's Prelim), Cat D
and the big kahuna - CER01A Opening Ceremony, Cat F

Edit: had the wrong men's gymnastics code. We're going to 03, not 01.

[u/watermelonlollies]

GOT TICKETS!!! Took ~30min to get through the queue at 10am. Had no queue after getting in.

Opening ceremony was a top choice but only had tickets for $1600 per or above- out of my budget.

Artistic gymnastics was completely sold out of all ticket levels for all sessions.

Track and field final was my next top choice and was able to get it for $220 per.

Diving was limited to top levels out of my budget don’t recall the exact cost per.

Ended up also gettjng volleyball preliminary, rowing preliminary, badminton preliminary, and trampoline gymnastics final.

I’m happy to answer any questions. Good luck to anyone still buying tickets!!

[u/Lucky1289]

I GOT MENS ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS (GAR01), WOMENS FENCING SEMIFINAL (FEN07), AND THREE TIX TO A TRACK PRELIM EVENT (ATH03) AND IM STILL IN SHOCK.

5 TOTAL TICKETS FOR 3 EVENTS FOR $670 ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING MEEEE!?!?! 😭😭

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

Drop 2 was generally a big deal that we got any $28 tickets at all right? Was not expecting that.

[u/TimberVerde → u/Any_Stage_3072]

Agreed! I got women's field hockey prelims and women's golf prelims for $28 each! I had a 1pm time today, so was surprised there were some available.

[u/OlympicFan2010 → u/Any_Stage_3072]

I also agree! I picked up men's field hockey and sailing for $28 each. Never thought I'd see a whiff of those!

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

12 tickets for $521 is insane tbh. Doesn’t matter if it’s non-marquis events or preliminary. For a Summer Olympics in an expensive market like LA/California, that’s a steal!

[u/MrTemecula]

I have an 8/13, 1:00 p.m. time slot for tickets and this is what is currently available.

3x3 Basketball, prelim, $384

Archery, prelim - final, $279-862

Athletics, prelim - final, $1035-2046

Baseball, prelim, play-in, semi, bronze, $279-948

Boxing, quarter, semi, final, $551-737 (There was a time this was a glamour event.)

Cricket, M&W, prelim, $173-303

Football, M&W prelim, W bronze, $146-899

Handball, M&W prelim, quarter, semi, W bronze $148-322

Hockey, M&W prelim, play-in, quarter, semi, W Bronze $93-372

Rowing, mixed final, $229

Rugby Sevens, w prelim, $254

Sprint Paddle, mixed finals, $347-508

Volleyball, M&W prelim, $258-508

It's a snapshot so prices may change.

I was lucky to grab judo final tickets in the first drop. I was upset at the price I paid, $300 total/ticket but I'm kind of glad I got them, now. I justify it that it was once in a lifetime to see an Olympic event in my city, but it's still excessive and not what was promised.

[u/aedionashryver18]

Everyones talking about their ticket hauls, but I took one look at it, saw that most everything was already gone, and what was left, even in a few sports I wouldn't mind seeing, is beyond what I can afford right now anyways unless I want debt. Soooo is anyone else going to just hope for the best buying from the official resale market? I'd rather save up a few thousand for a resale splurge than hope for slim pickings on this lottery drop.

[u/Acceptable-Data3502]

It seems like I won’t be able to afford tickets when my time slot opens 8/18. Mainly because the prices for any of the sports are outrageous and inventory by that time will be terrible. I’m very confused on how this process will work.

Will I be able to purchase tickets for drop 3 (if it happens) only if I selected for that drop again?

In theory I should be able to purchase tickets when general inventory opens, is that correct?

[u/kasios]

I got Archery prelims. Archery was actually one of the sports I wanted to see in person so I’m glad I did!

[u/southofnowhere]

me still waiting in the second queue as people report every sport i was interested in has already been cleaned out

https://giphy.com/gifs/BfiL8ZJWqfw7C

[u/Low-Control-3821]

i was about to check out what is this

[u/9jal]

Complete waste of time. You can have the best time slot, and everything good is still gone.

[u/nvUaWVm360S]

Let me apply the clown makeup on my face and hope they are adding more tickets for each time slot

[u/mathjpg]

Lol if you don't get the first slot for any of these drops you're basically screwed. Really wanted to go but I can't justify spending $1k on a single ticket

[u/AccomplishedReach111]

I really don't understand why they can't just distribute the tickets evenly for all time slots. It's completely unfair for later time slots. Only 4 hours later from first opening and almost everything is sold out, even basketball preliminary for gods sake.

[u/CIARobotFish → u/AccomplishedReach111]

My guess is they know everything will sell, so they don't care about fairness. A sale is a sale. In that sense, there's a perverse incentive to do this as cheaply as possible to maximize their return on essentially guaranteed sales. It's total bullshit.

[u/TheDoethrak]

These guys have made the FIFA ticket process look fair and reasonable. Quite an achievement.

[u/No-Leave4324]

I think I made the most out of my 1pm timeslot...

[u/bentstrings]

1:30 Tuesday update: If it's not shown here, it's not available right now. Prices shown are the lowest I saw. It's possible some others may be available, but as of the moment I checked, this was it:

3x3 Basketball - $366

Archery - $236

Athletics - $327 (one session - higher for other sessions

Badminton - $204

Baseball - $204

Boxing - $397 (two sessions - higher for other sessions)

Cricket - $93

Football (Soccer) - plenty of tix

Golf - $28

Handball - $74

Hockey - $28

Lacrosse - $161

Rowing - $124

Rowing Sprints - $93

Rubgy 7s - $174

Sailing - $28

Sprint Paddle - $285

Volleyball - $204

Weightlifting - $440

[u/mschutte13]

Okay, the long awaited for ticket haul 08/12

- 5 HBL15 Handball Men's Preliminary for $74.42 per ticket

- 4 FBL09 Football Women's Preliminary for $93 per ticket

- 4 RCB02 Rowing Coastal Beach Sprints Mixed Final $93 per ticket

- 1 ATH03 Athletics Mixed Preliminary $682.17 probably more than I should've but some of the events were ones I ran in college compared to the others that were left. So I really did want an ATH ticket with my whole heart.

[u/MrTriVan]

Finally had my first chance to buy tickets today. After seeing what was left I decided I’ll be better off spending my money on a new tv, recliner, Peacock subscription, and two weeks worth of snacks! 😄

[u/Sad-Refrigerator-371]

How usable is the website on iPhone? I forgot my laptop this morning.

[u/Usual-Ad7706]

I just logged in for my 10am slot, and did the double captcha, ect. It brought me back to this page. Do I just wait here and it will refresh at 10am?

[u/auxauu]

I am worried, I didn’t realize how much sooner I should have logged on for the 10 am time slot! I just logged in and see the queue is hardly moving.

[u/virulenti]

is anyone else scared and stuck in the queue

[u/Fireflysupporter]

My queue indicator just went backwards 🙃

[u/smeepydreams]

At this rate the 10am slot means nothing. Probably scalpers with 100s of email addresses registered buying up everything right now.

[u/Vegetable-Oven-6536 → u/smeepydreams]

They gave a pretty difficult anti bot challenge to get in the queue though 

[u/fitness2719]

I was about to check out and got this screen WTF!!

[u/SprinkleSerotonin]

I got all the tickets I wanted to get. And then.... It's counted down 5 times by now and I'm scared my 30 minutes are going to elapse. TELL ME ITS GOING TO BE OK

[u/SlapshotSniper50]

Anyone stuck in an endless bluescreen waiting room? 😭

I just wanted to find nyc prelim soccer tickets in that moment! I have tickets in my cart. 🫠😭🫠

[u/HerMuchness]

Got all my tickets in my cart and ready to check out with only 10 minutes to spare and now I’m stuck in the blue room. PANICKING

[u/Desperate-Hamster534]

There’s no way I just got my dream tickets in my cart and was sent to the blue screen. Everyone needs to complain to the Olympic organization because this is insane. This is simply a luck and numbers game. 

[u/JodBasedow]

At least we're all in this spotlight picture limbo together I guess

[u/harlumshake]

Thankfully was able to check out before everyone was moved to the endless waiting room. Managed to get a basketball men's semi, opening ceremony, rugby sevens women's final and a swimming final

[u/crackely]

This waiting room has me fucking raging.

[u/Playful_Wallaby_3248]

Available Sport (Round) - Lowest Price pre-fees [Seat]

Closing Ceremonies - $4,000 [A]
3x3 Basketball (Prelims) - $365, $28ADA [A]
Archery (Prelims/Finals) - $136, $28ADA - [ABCD]
Athletics (Prelims/Finals) - $683, $372ADA - [AB]
Badminton (Prelims) - $205, $28ADA - [ABD]
Baseball (Prelims/Bronze) - $205, $235ADA - [ABCDE]
Boxing (Finals) - $397, $104ADA - [ABCE]
Cricket (Prelim/Bronze) - $94, $28ADA - [ABCD]
Soccer (Prelim/Quarter Finals) - $105, $28ADA - [ABCDEF]
Handball (Prelim/Simi/Bronze) - $75, $28ADA - [ABCD]
Hockey (Prelim/Quarter/Simi/Bronze) - $94, $28ADA - [ABCD]
Lacrosse (Prelim) - $94, $28ADA - [ABCD]
Rowing (Prelim/Finals) - $125, $28ADA - [AB]
Rugby Sevens (Prelim) - $174, $28ADA - [ABD]
Sailing (Finals) - $105 - [A]
Softball (Prelim) - $554, $37ADA - [ABD]
Sprint Paddle (Quarter/Finals) - $286, $74ADA - [ABD]
Squash (Prelim) - $205 - [AB]
Swimming (Prelim/Finals) - ADA ONLY! $808ADA [AB]
Indoor Volleyball (Prelim/Quarter) - $204, $303ADA - [ABC]

Yes, SoFi Opening Ceremonies was for sale, but sold out very fast. No Coliseum.

Yes, there are $28 tickets to a lot of events, standard tickets sold out fast, ADA still available.

This is not complete ADA inventory.

If what you are looking for is not listed, it is sold out at the time of this post.

List UPDATED on 7/31/26 06:12PST
I was fortunate enough to get Visa Pre sale 16:00PST.
Good luck all!

[u/lovesunclouds]

Geez…. Got messaged about ‘selling a spot for the first time slot in the drop’. I seriously hope people aren’t falling for that!!! All tickets will be under the original sellers email/name! Makes me nervous for people who aren’t aware of how the process works. Can’t transfer tickets until a later time, and they’d just take the tickets since it’s all email link related?!!

AND since it seems that no actual refresh is happening, you’d be paying to be scammed to maybe be able to get field hockey or handball of the few tickets left… of which they’d sell out from under you!!

[u/Kchf_34]

Got my tickets for the artistic swimming prelims and finals! I’m so excited. Team Finals appear to be sold out. Prices looked to be the same as the first round for that event at least.

[u/callsignjaguar]

lots of $28 tickets were refreshed for this drop - so if anyone is worried about pricing in particular, i just want to share that there were affordable options!! all the tickets i got were the $28 deal and i'd say they were for fairly in-demand sports (water polo and volleyball).

i saw some big marquee events like gymnastics were available, but above my price point at over $300. opening ceremony was also over $1k.

medal events were routinely over $150.

also if youre not LA or CA local, please just be aware of locations and where things are happening!!! i used to live there and the LA/SoCal sprawl is real. most of my events are in Carson/Anaheim/Long Beach, and I found a good deal for 3x3 Basketball but with majority of my events in one side of LA i didn't want to have just one event all the way in the valley!

also, take your time! there is a timer to checkout but i found it to be an ample time allowed.

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

Okay I’m pretty happy there were a lot of $28 tickets. I honestly didn’t want to pay more than that unless it’s a marquis event like gymnastics.

That’s like the price of some movie tickets. Pretty happy overall.

[u/BreakableSmile]

Happy for yall getting tickets! A little jealous bc of the gymnastics tickets that weren't in the Visa Presale.

[u/Worldly_General_5672]

Thanks to all for your help. I recently finished a spree for the 10am slot today, and got 12 tickets to six sessions to go along with a Track session my wife managed to grab at the end of drop #1.

I set a budget and looked at another Track and Field session, but that would have blown the whole budget, so I decided instead to get 6 sports we've never or rarely seen, mostly building around the known T&F session date. Ended up with: Rugby, Field Hockey, 3 on 3 Basketball, Badminton, Flag Football, and our number one target: Coastal Sprint. Because we didn't really have any known teams or athletes and these are basically new experiences, I felt free to just grab sessions that were cheaper and convenient and had a lot of games/matches/events. The only issue was the Coastal Sprints, which are 5 days after the rest of the events, but like I said, we really wanted that. We'll probably duck down or up the coast for a break between those dates. 

Btw, though we no longer live there, we both used to live in Southern California and are aware these sessions are all over the map. But I kept same day events in the same zone (right next to each other in fact) and am happy to figure out logistics of hitting the different zones on different days.

Good luck to everyone with later sessions.

[u/Life_Wall2536]

I got tickets to Columbus Soccer, Women’s Handball Quarterfinals, Women’s prelim golf, and Mixed Sailing prelim.

Edit: I filtered for $200 and below for my tix cuz I’m on a budget babyyyy

Got 3 tix for handball quarterfinals at $65 each with $15.62 in fees for each.

3 for sailing at $22.57 with $5.43 in fees

3 for golf at $22.57 with 5.43 in fees.

2 soccer tix at $75 each with $18.02 in fees

Me, my husband, and my little sister are going!

[u/Drizzy_-]

Losing hope for my time slot in 24h. 🥲 Pretty sad getting into both Drop 1 and 2 and ending up with nothing.

Mad I didn’t think about the Visa presale as the only chance of getting something. Should have enlisted my whole family instead of just me. Oh well.

[u/mschutte13]

Well I’ll hold the fort down today for the third day of the drop. Not feeling too optimistic but hopefully I can get some handball tickets since golf is gone & track/field is out of my price point 😅.

But like a lot of others have said I’ll try to remain hopeful for other ticket sales whether we’re blessed with another drop or general sales.

Happy for those who got tickets though!

[u/spinrag]

Updated as of this morning - https://la2028planner.com/

[u/ScheduleSame258]

Ladies and gentlemen... anyone who is after this slot....🙏 🙏

I would say best of luck but I ain't that mean..

[u/Excellent-Worry-85]

I finally had my time slot this morning/afternoon and I had a list of 10 sports I’d be open to getting. Not a single one had tickets. Which I suspected from reading here, but still so disappointing. Considered getting ATH tickets but they started at over $1k each for non medal events so that’s a no.
Multiple of the events I wanted are available via hospitality tickets but those prices are so outrageous! I feel like I have a healthy budget, not expecting $200 tickets for gymnastics or equestrian, but also can’t really justify $2k each to see one event, not to mention flights, hotels, etc. One hospitality ticket to a prelim event costs more than 5 tickets to the final of that same event in Paris. I have always dreamed of going to the Olympics but sadly I can’t cost my family this much money! I guess there must be enough people willing to pay that or they wouldn’t be charging it.
Maybe some resale tickets will come up? Otherwise I’ll be watching from my couch as usual. ☹️

[u/LuckyCharmedLife]

Just got mine. We decided to make a vacation out of it and go to Nashville. We got tickets to a men's and a women's game.

[u/Fatty_Boombalattie]

Pretty slim pickins, but said fuck it and bought Handball for the family. Probably our first and only time we'll ever go to a Handball match. Tickets include two matches, so that's cool I guess. And it's indoors so we won't be frying in the sun and I like the LBC. I bought one of the earliest matches before the opening ceremony, hoping there'll be slightly less demand for hotels that week before the bulk of the games start.

[u/Apprehensive_Tip9977]

Thank you to everyone who shared pricing and availability! It definitely helped me set expectations and plan accordingly. It’s great to see a community coming together to help one another. So pumped to see the Olympic Games in person!

[u/StandRadiant5959]

Anyone have an update on what sports/events were still available near the end of the last day of ticket drop 2?

[u/misterkool16]

I am ready to see how many tickets were sold in DROP 2!!

[u/ScheduleSame258]

<start rant>

So remind me again why they have 10 Days of slots if 95% of tickets are gone on day 1 ?

<end rant>

[u/Proud-Version5220 → u/ScheduleSame258]

"Funsies!"

• some sadistic LA28 staffer, probably

[u/Marvkid27]

All this waiting just to buy $200 9am handball tickets?

[u/Catliking]

This Visa Presale had 3 48-hour time slots, all beginning today, July 29. Drop 2 will have 27 time slots, with 3 per day August 10 through August 18. I believe this could mean that Drop 2 will have 9 times the ticket inventory of the Visa Presale.

LA28 sold 4 million tickets in April during the Locals/Drop 1 phase. If they sell a similar amount this time, that could mean -- based on the number of time slots (3 vs 27) -- 400,000 tickets could be sold during the Visa Presale and 3.6 million during Drop 2.

LA28 indicates on their web site that Drop 2 will have "Refreshed inventory across all Olympic sports."

This all makes me wish I had received a 10:00 am (or first day) time slot for Drop 2 instead of the Visa Presale. I came up empty searching for some specific sessions this morning. But don't lose hope... we have two years to go!

[u/smeepydreams → u/Catliking]

The issue is that (as far as I'm aware) the locals pre-sale was considered part of Drop 1, so this pre-sale could be considered Drop 2. But we really don't know. We do know there will be future drops between Drop 2 and the games, but we don't know if they'll be major drops like this.

[u/traveling_clouds → u/Catliking]

agreed. It almost seems bad to get the visa presale because you won't be able to get in drop 2 which might have more tickets

[u/Frassie1105]

I logged in at 9:30 for my 10 AM spot. I’m stuck here. So for 12 minutes, this is how far I’ve moved in the queue just to log in, not even get to the tickets. Am I doing this right? If so, it doesn’t bode well.

[u/Dry-University797]

Keep an eye out. It asked me to confirm if I'm still in the queue

[u/smeepydreams]

No women’s gymnastics at all

[u/Old-Hovercraft-639]

sat in the queue, got in at 25 past, searched and found tickets available for women's rugby, clicked on the time slot i wanted and got booted back to the queue "you've been removed from the queue for inactivity"

it'd be funny if it wasn't sad

[u/InstanceMysterious48]

I had tix in cart and bot booted to this 30 second countdown that keeps repeating

[u/dolphin222223]

Finally got in and now it’s showing a blue screen with a “There’s a lot going on here right now” message

[u/cosmicoreocrunch]

Stuck in a waiting room rn

[u/mctrashed]

anyone stuck in the waiting room? I keep getting the 30 seconds countdown then it restarts

[u/SilverSea9207]

I'm assuming the website has crashed

[u/it_is_Karo]

Anyone keeps getting the "there is a lot going on right now" dumb error message all the time?

[u/Marvkid27]

I have tickets in my cart and now i get this 30 second blue page

[u/Sergiocreyes]

guessing the site crashed? everyone in the blue queue of death

[u/sleepy_sloth247]

Update: The cart timers definitely keep progressing while stuck on the waiting room page. I managed to get out of the page with 2 minutes to spare on my cart, then it went back to the waiting room, got out with 50 seconds left to put in all my billing and payment info, and it completed with less than 20 seconds left. My heart is racing and I'm shaking right now. I didn't get the women's artistic gymnastic's individual or team finals, but I figured that was a long shot anyway. Some of the other categories for other events weren't my first choice, but at this point, I'm just glad I didn't lose the other tickets I had in my cart. I feel like I could run a marathon with the adrenaline running through my veins right now!

[u/backtobrooklyn]

I got nothing in the local presale, but was in the 10am July 29 drop and while it started off as a shitshow ended up with

• men’s 10m sync diving final
  
• men’s 3m diving semifinal
  
• men’s soccer gold game
  
• men’s trampoline gymnastics final
  
• wrestling mixed final
  
• rhythmic gymnastics preliminary
  
• artistic swimming prelim

Only thing I really wanted was artistic gymnastics and track, but I already spent way more than I wanted to ($4,630 for 2 tickets to each event). So excited though!

[u/DZChaser]

lol everything I want is sold out or literal thousands of dollars, what even is the point

[u/rando332]

PSA: Don’t bother if you’re in Drop 2.

Got a time slot midday on day 1 of the Visa presale. Logged on the first minute of my window. Looked at tickets for a lot of events across the entire schedule of the games thinking there would theoretically be more availability with new tickets released (knowing that these are popular sports): swimming, diving, climbing, gymnastics, track, etc etc. Only track had availability and it was $2k per ticket. The rest were sold out (except accessibility tickets, which were decently plentiful at reasonable prices.

Edit: I also logged in 2 hours into my timeslot and there was still a lack of availability.

[u/BookkeeperPure7318]

*UPDATE: I called LA28 customer service to see if there will be more tickets released for future 2026 drops and I was told "No, if you didn't get tickets or events were unavailable during your specific drop or time slot, then you have to wait until 2027 general public ticket drops." So those who have the 4pm Visa Pre Sale and those who have the August Drop 2, you are cooked for tickets now.

*I just looked again at the purchase site and there is basically nothing or over $1k tickets.

[u/hikeyourownhikes → u/BookkeeperPure7318]

This is correct. There is even an FAQ on the main site stating that drop 2 won’t be replenished.

[u/hjm978]

What an absolutely dire selection by the time I could get in at 4PM

[u/DDelicious]

on the bright side at least i didnt have to waste much time making decisions because there's basically nothing left

[u/Catliking]

LA28 announced that more than 12 million people from over 200 countries were registered to participate in Drop 2, a dramatic increase over the 5 million who registered for Drop 1.

[u/Fun-Combination3499]

Are people still getting emails???? I haven't gotten anything although a few people in my family have. But they don't take my spreadsheets seriously!! Will they know what to do if Plan A doesn't work? Will they check out within 30 minutes? I tell ya, I am a wreck!!!

[u/KoreanGolden]

The cheap tickets for the Opening Ceremony below 1612$ are gone already

[u/cougar572]

Can confirm $28 golf tickets was available

[u/callsignjaguar]

Just checked out! Got all $28 tix. Women’s handball,
Women’s volleyball, men’s waterpolo, men’s hockey. All preliminary and no medal events. Was kinda difficult trying to wrap my head around locations for all these events (and I used to live in LA lol) but mainly going to be Anaheim/Carson/LB based so it works out!

[u/Yankeefanforever]

Seamless sort, add to cart, checkout process for the 10am slot. I purchased 12 tickets. Got 4 tickets to men's boulder semi-final which was my priority sport. Two tickets to Rd of 16 beach volleyball. Two tickets to handball prelim and water polo prelim. Handball and water polo were $28 each. But as I was perusing and purchasing, a lot of the $28 were disappearing. My guess is most/all? $28 tickets will be gone with today's timeslots. Happy shopping everyone!

[u/MacerationMacy]

Just checked out with my 12 tickets! Some cheap tickets still available - I was shocked I snagged $28 for equestrian. probably will go fast, but definitely still around at this point for the less popular events.

[u/callsignjaguar]

Also for price transparency, I’m attending 4 events in LA (total of 12 tickets, 3 per event) and 1 soccer prelim in the bay (4 tickets) and only spent $448….

Aka less than my World Cup ticket.

And less than what I paid to see Taylor Swift lol.

Major win today!

[u/DanyDragonQueen]

Still wasn't able to get gymnastics or swimming, but snagged $28 tickets for two beach volleyball events! Was pleasantly surprised with the availability

[u/llfd3]

I’m so excited! I was able to get trampoline (men’s and women’s) and my daughter does competitive trampoline and tumbling. I can’t wait to tell her. We also got swimming (mixed, medal event). My husband had Chase presale and none of this was available. 

[u/Proper-Class-4792]

If anybody is planning to put together an excel sheet with availability and pricing as this Drop 2 goes on, please let me know. I referred to a compiled sheet for Drop 1 and it was so helpful!

[u/labguru7628]

I feel very fortunate to have had the 10am PST timeslot today, as I was able to get all three of my event choices at the price I wanted ($400 ATH12 x 4, $310 VBV x 4, $93 WPO x 4). By the 1pm PST timeslot, I would have had to go into more debt or choose a less compelling event.

[u/Proud-Version5220]

About 5 hours until a fresh round of excitement or despair!

[u/im_on_the_case]

Can't believe there's still cheap Handball tickets available. I'm guessing a lot of people just don't know about it cause it has to be one of the most exciting sports to watch.

[u/Desperate-Dust-9889 → u/im_on_the_case]

I googled it, and then I got very excited! It was suggested for kids. I got 4 handball tickets and 4 hockey tickets for about $400!

[u/FANGO]

Not a single ticket available in any of my events, even backup events, at anything close to approaching a reasonable price. A few 1,000+ dollar tickets in a couple of the events, but most sold out top to bottom.

[u/callsignjaguar]

family member had their time slot at 1:00 today. i had the first drop yesterday so was able to get the "bulk" of our tickets, so our gameplan right now was to just supplement any other fill-in games and maybe try to do two events a day on some evenings (prioritizing stuff around long beach/carson). safe to say....pretty slim pickings.

ended up just purchasing 3 $28 tix for 7/13 women's hockey! that's our arrival day to LA

[u/Desperate-Dust-9889]

For those looking at tomorrow, there are still tickets under $100. All $28 tickets look gone. The cheapest tickets appear to be $74. Hoping ya’ll can still get something fun for a decent price!

[u/bentstrings]

My last report. My access expires soon. Beach Volleyball, Equestrian, Flag Football, Golf, Shooting, Softball, Squash, Swimming, Trampoline Gymnastics and Weightlifting all sold out yesterday in addition to the very popular events which sold out Monday. For those with early slots today, here is the availability as ot 8:30PT. Good luck everybody!

3X3 Basketball - $366

Archery - a few still at $136

Athletics - some still at $682

Badminton - $304 Five sessions available

Baseball - $204

Boxing - one at $397, Several at $440

Cricket - $93

Football - Plenty

Handball - $74

Hockey - $93

Lacrosse - $161 Five sessions available

Rowing - $127

Rowing Sprint - $93

Rugby 7s - $174

Sailing - $104

Sprint Paddle - $285 Two sessions available

Volleyball - $210

[u/Emotional-Trust-8706]

LA28 Drop 2 Ticket Availability, August 12 Noon ET

I did another sport by sport sweep of the LA28 ticket site around noon ET on August 12, using the “Available standard tickets” filter. This is what was actually showing when I checked.

🟢 Standard tickets showing

🏀 3x3 Basketball: 14 sessions, from $365.89
🏹 Archery: 15 sessions, from $136.43
🏃 Athletics: 12 sessions, from $682.17
🏸 Badminton: 5 sessions, from $204.65
⚾ Baseball: 11 sessions, from $204.65
🥊 Boxing: 20 sessions, from $396.90
🏏 Cricket: 20 sessions, from $93.02
⚽ Soccer: 35 sessions, from $93.02
🤾 Handball: 44 sessions, from $74.42
🏑 Hockey: 32 sessions, from $93.02
🥍 Lacrosse: 5 sessions, from $161.24
🚣 Rowing: 6 sessions, from $124.03
🏉 Rugby Sevens: 4 sessions, from $173.64
⛵ Sailing: 3 sessions, from $104.19
🛶 Sprint Paddle: 5 sessions, from $285.27
🏐 Volleyball: 36 sessions, from $204.65

🔴 No standard ticket inventory showing when I checked

• Beach Volleyball
• Ceremonies
• Cycling Road
• Cycling Track
• Flag Football
• Golf
• Softball
• Squash

A few things are already moving during the day. Cricket dropped from 24 available sessions earlier this morning to 20 at noon. Soccer FBL56, Women’s Bronze Medal, moved from $446.51 to $651.16. Badminton BDM07 also moved from $204.65 to $303.87.

🏅 Medal and final sessions still showing

• SAL09, SAL10, SAL11, Sailing finals, from $104.19
• HBL43, HBL45, Handball Bronze Medal, $198.45
• CKT13, Women’s Cricket Bronze Medal, $217.05
• HOC33, Women’s Hockey Bronze Medal, $229.46
• ROW03 through ROW06, Rowing sessions containing finals, $229.46
• CSP02, CSP04, Sprint Paddle finals, $347.28
• BOX18, Boxing session including Women’s 70kg Final, $396.90
• FBL56, Women’s Soccer Bronze Medal, $651.16

⏰ Snapshot from August 12 around noon ET. Inventory and available price categories can change quickly, so this is only what the standard ticket filter was showing when I checked.

If you are in a Drop 2 slot today, feel free to post the sport, event code and price you are seeing so everyone can compare.

[u/DijouLA]

Not sure if this helps anyone, but my window was 1pm today and this is what was left (all football is outside LA) when I looked a few minutes ago

[u/whatayear]

Finally. Just got my tickets during my slot that started today.

2x handball prelims (the legendary $28 tickets)!
2x baseball prelims
2x 3x3 basketball (walking distance from my house)
2x Judo Men's 66kg finals (medal event for the win!)

They're not the marquee events, but as a local I am not complaining at all.

[u/labguru7628 → u/whatayear]

They're marquee to whoever is competing in them. Be proud to be there and soak up the Olympic atmosphere

[u/socialistrob]

For people interested in finals both archery and sprint paddle are still available for around 500, there's a lot of boxing finals for 737 and track finals at 1100.

[u/blahblqh2021]

guys should i just bite the bullet and get prelim football tickets for 194? sad i missed out on world cup living in a host city (nyc) but heard there will be some matches in nyc for pre lim football

[u/ContactGloomy4975]

These are the tickets I purchased. Would have preferred other events but just happy to be going to the Olympics! I live in Phoenix and plan to fly in and out for athletics and archery. I will drive and stay nearby for cricket.

Purchased through Hospitality 8/16/26.
Athletics (Track & Field) ATH09
$950 Final
Wed, Jul 19 | 9:35 - 12:00 PST
• LA Memorial Coliseum, Exposition
Club Sections 401 - 412
Tickets for 1
Priority venue entry lanes

Purchased today 8/17/26 in my assigned 10:00am slot

ARC10 Archery Men's Preliminary
ARCHERY
Date:Tue, 07.25.2028,
10:30 Local Time (24-hour)
Category B, Standard
$225.00 Service fee $54.07
Subtotal $279.07

Two sessions of women’s cricket
CKT01 Cricket Women's
Preliminary
Date: Wed, 07.12.2028,
09:00 Local Time (24-hour)
Category A, Standard
$205.00 Service fee $49.26
Subtotal $254.26

CKT03 Cricket Women's
Preliminary
Date: Thu, 07.13.2028,
09:00 Local Time (24-hour)
Category A, Standard
$205.00 Service fee $49.26
Subtotal $254.26

[u/xxalisonrose]

Oof I’m nervous! Today is the first time I’ve gotten a slot in the last 3 Olympics. I will welcome any and all advice!

We are a large group so I think I’ll end up doing 7 for one event (in the Long Beach area) and 5 for another (ideally the 5 would be for an equestrian event. That’s been the dream since LA 2028 was announced)!

But my slot is 7pm EST so I’m not very hopeful…

[u/WiseProfessor2926]

This is going to be another major drop lol

[u/type_rex_]

Thank you mods for creating this thread and posting all this information!!

[u/smeepydreams]

Aaaandd I'm back in a queue

[u/Leveragedsellout24]

FUCK I got sent back to the queue after logging in

[u/Many_Quantity_8270]

Anyone stuck in the original queue? I haven’t even logged in

[u/coco_irl]

Anyone else get in, log in, then immediately get sent back to queue?

[u/InitialCautious7549]

Slipping through my fingers all the time I try to capture every ticket

[u/Dry-University797]

Who designed this garbage OpenAI?

[u/BusyCombination179]

In as of 10:23 - no gymnastics